Offensive Weapons: Sales — Written Question

Question

Mrs Elsie Blundell

Labour — Heywood and Middleton North

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has had discussions with (a) local authorities and (b) business across Greater Manchester on steps to tackle the sale of (a) knives and (b) other offensive weapons to (i) teenagers and (ii

Answer

Dame Diana Johnson

The Government has set out an unprecedented mission to halve knife crime in a decade and we are already taking a range of steps to make our communities a safer place for our young people.We know that more needs to be done to tackle the sale of knives and ...

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